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R.F. Kuang Quote: “This wasn’t about lust, this was about power. This was about possession. He wanted to dominate her just so that later he could crow that he had.”

451. “This wasn’t about lust, this was about power. This was about possession. He wanted to dominate her just so that later he could crow that he had.”

R.F. Kuang Quote: “All our silver goes to luxury, to the military, to making lace and weapons when there are people dying of simple things these bars could fix. It’s not right that you recruit students from other countries to work your translation centre and that their motherlands receive nothing in return.”

452. “All our silver goes to luxury, to the military, to making lace and weapons when there are people dying of simple things these bars could fix. It’s not right that you recruit students from other countries to work your translation centre and that their motherlands receive nothing in return.”

R.F. Kuang Quote: “I dub historical exploitation novels: inauthentic stories that use troubled pasts as an entertaining set piece for white entertainment.”

453. “I dub historical exploitation novels: inauthentic stories that use troubled pasts as an entertaining set piece for white entertainment.”

R.F. Kuang Quote: “It’s about wishing you know who your parents were. It’s about needing things from your parents you’ll never get. When you’re in the zone, drafting doesn’t feel like an effortful artifice. It feels like remembering, putting down in written form something that has been locked inside you all along.”

454. “It’s about wishing you know who your parents were. It’s about needing things from your parents you’ll never get. When you’re in the zone, drafting doesn’t feel like an effortful artifice. It feels like remembering, putting down in written form something that has been locked inside you all along.”

R.F. Kuang Quote: “You’re easily angered, and you latch quickly onto things – opium, people, ideas – that soothe your pain, even temporarily. And that makes you terribly easy to manipulate.” Chaghan.”

455. “You’re easily angered, and you latch quickly onto things – opium, people, ideas – that soothe your pain, even temporarily. And that makes you terribly easy to manipulate.” Chaghan.”

R.F. Kuang Quote: “Half a dozen peacocks, reportedly imported from London Zoo, wandered around the green, harassing anyone dressed in bright colours.”

456. “Half a dozen peacocks, reportedly imported from London Zoo, wandered around the green, harassing anyone dressed in bright colours.”

R.F. Kuang Quote: “Crying fits are to be conducted in private, that’s library rules.”

457. “Crying fits are to be conducted in private, that’s library rules.”

R.F. Kuang Quote: “I think I’d like to go frothing mad,” said Rin. “I’d like to lose my head. I think I’d be happier.”

458. “I think I’d like to go frothing mad,” said Rin. “I’d like to lose my head. I think I’d be happier.”

R.F. Kuang Quote: “In the end, it was always so easy to kill her heart. It didn’t matter that they looked like boys. That they were nothing, nothing like the monsters she had once known. In this war of racial totality, none of that mattered. If they were Mugenese, that meant they were crickets and that meant when she crushed them under her heel, the universe hardly registered their loss.”

459. “In the end, it was always so easy to kill her heart. It didn’t matter that they looked like boys. That they were nothing, nothing like the monsters she had once known. In this war of racial totality, none of that mattered. If they were Mugenese, that meant they were crickets and that meant when she crushed them under her heel, the universe hardly registered their loss.”

R.F. Kuang Quote: “Survival’s not that difficult, Birdie.’ Ramy’s eyes were very hard. ‘But you’ve got to maintain some dignity while you’re at it.”

460. “Survival’s not that difficult, Birdie.’ Ramy’s eyes were very hard. ‘But you’ve got to maintain some dignity while you’re at it.”

R.F. Kuang Quote: “London was voracious, was growing fat on its spoils and still, somehow, starved. London was both unimaginably rich and wretchedly poor. London – lovely, ugly, sprawling, cramped, belching, sniffing, virtuous, hypocritical, silver-gilded London – was near to a reckoning, for the day would come when it either devoured itself from the inside or cast outwards for new delicacies, labour, capital, and culture on which to feed.”

461. “London was voracious, was growing fat on its spoils and still, somehow, starved. London was both unimaginably rich and wretchedly poor. London – lovely, ugly, sprawling, cramped, belching, sniffing, virtuous, hypocritical, silver-gilded London – was near to a reckoning, for the day would come when it either devoured itself from the inside or cast outwards for new delicacies, labour, capital, and culture on which to feed.”

R.F. Kuang Quote: “Her fans praise such tactics as brilliant and authentic – a diaspora writer’s necessary intervention against the whiteness of English. But it’s not good craft. It makes the prose frustrating and inaccessible. I am convinced it is all in service of making Athena, and her readers, feel smarter than they are.”

462. “Her fans praise such tactics as brilliant and authentic – a diaspora writer’s necessary intervention against the whiteness of English. But it’s not good craft. It makes the prose frustrating and inaccessible. I am convinced it is all in service of making Athena, and her readers, feel smarter than they are.”

R.F. Kuang Quote: “When you taught them to fight a war, then you armed them and put them on the front lines, they were not children anymore. They were soldiers.”

463. “When you taught them to fight a war, then you armed them and put them on the front lines, they were not children anymore. They were soldiers.”

R.F. Kuang Quote: “I’m begging you. In her mind’s eye she saw the Phoenix recoil, as if irritated. It opened its wings in a huge, fiery expanse and then folded them. The way to the Pantheon shut.”

464. “I’m begging you. In her mind’s eye she saw the Phoenix recoil, as if irritated. It opened its wings in a huge, fiery expanse and then folded them. The way to the Pantheon shut.”

R.F. Kuang Quote: “She thought she’d learned to inhabit the impossible ideal: the girl who was eminently fuckable but unreachable, and therefore virtuous and perfect. The girl who was everything all at once.”

465. “She thought she’d learned to inhabit the impossible ideal: the girl who was eminently fuckable but unreachable, and therefore virtuous and perfect. The girl who was everything all at once.”

R.F. Kuang Quote: “Brett emails me with updates on foreign rights. We’ve sold rights in Germany, Spain, Poland, and Russia. Not France, yet, but we’re working on it, says Brett. But nobody sells well in France. If the French like you, then you’re doing something very wrong.”

466. “Brett emails me with updates on foreign rights. We’ve sold rights in Germany, Spain, Poland, and Russia. Not France, yet, but we’re working on it, says Brett. But nobody sells well in France. If the French like you, then you’re doing something very wrong.”

R.F. Kuang Quote: “I wish I were the night, so that I might watch your sleep with a thousand eyes.”

467. “I wish I were the night, so that I might watch your sleep with a thousand eyes.”

R.F. Kuang Quote: “No one had ever been able to deny Mingzha anything. Who could? He was so fat and happy, a bouncing ball of giggles and delight, the absolute treasure of the palace.”

468. “No one had ever been able to deny Mingzha anything. Who could? He was so fat and happy, a bouncing ball of giggles and delight, the absolute treasure of the palace.”

R.F. Kuang Quote: “Professor Lovell scoffed. ‘Never. I look at those men, and I think of the vast differences between us. I am where I am because I believe in knowledge and scientific progress, and I have used them to my advantage. They are where they are because they have stubbornly refused to move forward with the future. Men like that don’t scare me. Men like that make me laugh.”

469. “Professor Lovell scoffed. ‘Never. I look at those men, and I think of the vast differences between us. I am where I am because I believe in knowledge and scientific progress, and I have used them to my advantage. They are where they are because they have stubbornly refused to move forward with the future. Men like that don’t scare me. Men like that make me laugh.”

R.F. Kuang Quote: “For God’s sake,’ snapped Professor Lovell. ‘She was only just a woman.”

470. “For God’s sake,’ snapped Professor Lovell. ‘She was only just a woman.”

R.F. Kuang Quote: “The problem is that we’re always living like we’re lost.”

471. “The problem is that we’re always living like we’re lost.”

R.F. Kuang Quote: “He could read the language better than he spoke it. Ever since the boy turned four, he had received a large parcel twice a year filled entirely with books written in English. The return address was a residence in Hampstead just outside London – a place Miss Betty seemed unfamiliar with, and which the boy of course knew nothing about.”

472. “He could read the language better than he spoke it. Ever since the boy turned four, he had received a large parcel twice a year filled entirely with books written in English. The return address was a residence in Hampstead just outside London – a place Miss Betty seemed unfamiliar with, and which the boy of course knew nothing about.”

R.F. Kuang Quote: “This is why we are strong. We draw our strength from cen tries and centuries of unforgotten injustices. Our task – our very reason for being- is to make those deaths mean something. After us, there will be no Speer. Only a memory.”

473. “This is why we are strong. We draw our strength from cen tries and centuries of unforgotten injustices. Our task – our very reason for being- is to make those deaths mean something. After us, there will be no Speer. Only a memory.”

R.F. Kuang Quote: “Bettering one’s understanding of the human condition is not a matter of profit.”

474. “Bettering one’s understanding of the human condition is not a matter of profit.”

R.F. Kuang Quote: “She had a weapon now. She wasn’t defenseless against him. She’d never been defenseless. She had just never thought to look.”

475. “She had a weapon now. She wasn’t defenseless against him. She’d never been defenseless. She had just never thought to look.”

R.F. Kuang Quote: “Darling, people pay you less attention when you don’t leave a trail of bodies in your wake.”

476. “Darling, people pay you less attention when you don’t leave a trail of bodies in your wake.”

R.F. Kuang Quote: “She was all of herself. She was whole, intact.”

477. “She was all of herself. She was whole, intact.”

R.F. Kuang Quote: “Westminster Bridge fell.”

478. “Westminster Bridge fell.”

R.F. Kuang Quote: “He learned when to flatter and when to engage in self-deprecation. He could have written a thesis on white pride, on white curiosity. He knew how to make himself an object of fascination while neutralizing himself as a threat.”

479. “He learned when to flatter and when to engage in self-deprecation. He could have written a thesis on white pride, on white curiosity. He knew how to make himself an object of fascination while neutralizing himself as a threat.”

R.F. Kuang Quote: “The thing about violence, see, is that the Empire has a lot more to lose than we do. Violence disrupts the extractive economy. You wreak havoc on one supply line, and there’s a dip in prices across the Atlantic. Their entire system of trade is high-strung and vulnerable to shocks because they’ve made it thus, because the rapacious greed of capitalism is punishing. It’s why slave revolts succeed. They can’t fire on their own source of labour – it’d be like killing their own golden geese.”

480. “The thing about violence, see, is that the Empire has a lot more to lose than we do. Violence disrupts the extractive economy. You wreak havoc on one supply line, and there’s a dip in prices across the Atlantic. Their entire system of trade is high-strung and vulnerable to shocks because they’ve made it thus, because the rapacious greed of capitalism is punishing. It’s why slave revolts succeed. They can’t fire on their own source of labour – it’d be like killing their own golden geese.”

R.F. Kuang Quote: “She no longer fought from pure rage. She fought to protect him – and that, she had discovered, changed everything.”

481. “She no longer fought from pure rage. She fought to protect him – and that, she had discovered, changed everything.”

R.F. Kuang Quote: “I can keep up with your students if you just let me try. I don’t even have to attend recitation. I just need books.”

482. “I can keep up with your students if you just let me try. I don’t even have to attend recitation. I just need books.”

R.F. Kuang Quote: “Is it really as bad as all that?’ Robin asked Abel. ‘The factories, I mean.’ ‘Worse,’ said Abel. ‘Those are just the freak accidents they’re reporting on. But they don’t say what it’s like to work day after day on those cramped floors. Rising before dawn and working until nine with few breaks in between. And those are the conditions we covet. The jobs we wish we could get back. I imagine they don’t make you work half as hard at university, do they?”

483. “Is it really as bad as all that?’ Robin asked Abel. ‘The factories, I mean.’ ‘Worse,’ said Abel. ‘Those are just the freak accidents they’re reporting on. But they don’t say what it’s like to work day after day on those cramped floors. Rising before dawn and working until nine with few breaks in between. And those are the conditions we covet. The jobs we wish we could get back. I imagine they don’t make you work half as hard at university, do they?”

R.F. Kuang Quote: “The trouble with writing an Oxford novel is that anyone who has spent time at Oxford will scrutinize your text to determine if your representation of Oxford aligns with their own memories of the place. Worse if you are an American writing about Oxford, for what do Americans know about anything?”

484. “The trouble with writing an Oxford novel is that anyone who has spent time at Oxford will scrutinize your text to determine if your representation of Oxford aligns with their own memories of the place. Worse if you are an American writing about Oxford, for what do Americans know about anything?”

R.F. Kuang Quote: “If she wasn’t making the decisions, then nothing could be her fault.”

485. “If she wasn’t making the decisions, then nothing could be her fault.”

R.F. Kuang Quote: “Perhaps human intelligence was a mistake, and everyone who celebrated the escape from the Garden of Eden was wrong. Perhaps the gift of rationality did not outweigh the debilitating agony that came with it.”

486. “Perhaps human intelligence was a mistake, and everyone who celebrated the escape from the Garden of Eden was wrong. Perhaps the gift of rationality did not outweigh the debilitating agony that came with it.”

R.F. Kuang Quote: “She’d been so stupid to once think that if she ended the Federation then she’d ended the hurting. War didn’t end, not so cleanly – it just kept building up in little hurts that piled on one another until they exploded afresh into raw new wounds.”

487. “She’d been so stupid to once think that if she ended the Federation then she’d ended the hurting. War didn’t end, not so cleanly – it just kept building up in little hurts that piled on one another until they exploded afresh into raw new wounds.”

R.F. Kuang Quote: “She wanted to forget everything, to forget the war, to forget her gods. It was enough to simply be, to know that her friends were alive and that the entire world was not so dark after all.”

488. “She wanted to forget everything, to forget the war, to forget her gods. It was enough to simply be, to know that her friends were alive and that the entire world was not so dark after all.”

R.F. Kuang Quote: “You know what I mean,’ she huffed. ‘She’s not Haitian. She’s French. And I just don’t see why she has to be so difficult.”

489. “You know what I mean,’ she huffed. ‘She’s not Haitian. She’s French. And I just don’t see why she has to be so difficult.”

R.F. Kuang Quote: “Never, Robin thought, would he understand these men, who talked of the world and its movements like a grand chess game, where countries and peoples were pieces to be moved and manipulated at will.”

490. “Never, Robin thought, would he understand these men, who talked of the world and its movements like a grand chess game, where countries and peoples were pieces to be moved and manipulated at will.”

R.F. Kuang Quote: “Publishing gossip, it turns out, is a lot of fun when you’re speculating about other people’s misfortune.”

491. “Publishing gossip, it turns out, is a lot of fun when you’re speculating about other people’s misfortune.”

R.F. Kuang Quote: “Words have no meaning unless there is someone present who can understand them. And it can’t be a shallow level of understanding – you can’t simply tell a farmer what triacle means in French and expect that the bar will work. You need to be able to think in a language – to live and breathe it, not just recognize it as a smattering of letters on a page.”

492. “Words have no meaning unless there is someone present who can understand them. And it can’t be a shallow level of understanding – you can’t simply tell a farmer what triacle means in French and expect that the bar will work. You need to be able to think in a language – to live and breathe it, not just recognize it as a smattering of letters on a page.”

$R.F. Kuang Quote: “She’d seen the resentment on the faces of her people. The glare in their eyes when they dared to look up. They were not a people grasping for power. Their rebellion would not fracture over stupid personal ambitions. They were a people who refused to be killed, and that made them dangerous. You.”$

493. “She’d seen the resentment on the faces of her people. The glare in their eyes when they dared to look up. They were not a people grasping for power. Their rebellion would not fracture over stupid personal ambitions. They were a people who refused to be killed, and that made them dangerous. You.”

R.F. Kuang Quote: “But as she and Rin had both discovered, the battles were easy. Destroying was easy. The hard part was the aftermath.”

494. “But as she and Rin had both discovered, the battles were easy. Destroying was easy. The hard part was the aftermath.”

R.F. Kuang Quote: “She dressed him in finely embroidered silks and adorned him with so many lucky amulets of gold and jade that Mingzha clinked everywhere he walked, weighed down with the burden of good fortune. The palace servants liked to joke that they could always hear Mingzha before they saw him.”

495. “She dressed him in finely embroidered silks and adorned him with so many lucky amulets of gold and jade that Mingzha clinked everywhere he walked, weighed down with the burden of good fortune. The palace servants liked to joke that they could always hear Mingzha before they saw him.”

R.F. Kuang Quote: “They’ll make you an outsider, because you’re not like them. That’s okay. Don’t let any of that discourage you. No matter what they say, you deserve to be here.”

496. “They’ll make you an outsider, because you’re not like them. That’s okay. Don’t let any of that discourage you. No matter what they say, you deserve to be here.”

R.F. Kuang Quote: “She herself found the dialect nearly indecipherable; every word, it seemed, had to be shortened, with a curt r noise added to the end.”

497. “She herself found the dialect nearly indecipherable; every word, it seemed, had to be shortened, with a curt r noise added to the end.”

R.F. Kuang Quote: “The English are never going to think I’m posh, but if I fit into their fantasy, then they’ll at least think I’m royalty.”

498. “The English are never going to think I’m posh, but if I fit into their fantasy, then they’ll at least think I’m royalty.”

R.F. Kuang Quote: “The world is not a complete system; there is always an exception. No explanation for its existence; no reason why one might expect it to have existed before or to ever exist again. The world was simply unknowable; exceptions cropped up all the time, and all you had to do to beat the odds was just look.”

499. “The world is not a complete system; there is always an exception. No explanation for its existence; no reason why one might expect it to have existed before or to ever exist again. The world was simply unknowable; exceptions cropped up all the time, and all you had to do to beat the odds was just look.”

R.F. Kuang Quote: “Supernatural is a word for anything that doesn’t fit your present understanding of the world. I need you to suspend your disbelief. I need you to simply accept that these things are possible.”

500. “Supernatural is a word for anything that doesn’t fit your present understanding of the world. I need you to suspend your disbelief. I need you to simply accept that these things are possible.”

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